Will they change the animation, art direction or not?

Shenhe said:
@Confused_100 Elaborate on that for me will you?

ImJustBetter2435 said:

Ryu Nakayama is working with PSD Delivery, a new studio that has worked on a few shows. If you want a source, just check out his and PSD Delivery's Twitter pages. Ryu Nakayama probably wasn't fired it was most likely a mutual parting of ways since both parties are better off separating at this point. Nakayama wanted to create and work in a better animator environment, something that MAPPA just will not do for the foreseeable future, unfortunately. MAPPA wanted a new director who could create a style that more Japanese fans liked. The situation is more nuanced than what you or @Confused_100 are saying as are most things in life. Realistically, there were people who loved CSM in Japan and people who hated it as well, just like everywhere else.

Adnash said:
@Anime_Skaddiel You've just casually ignored everything I wrote in this subject, pretended I said something as a fact (while I did not), only to proceed to shovel your own point of view and build up the whole narration around it. And you are telling me that I'm embarassing myself? Weird.

Let me rephrase it to you and others in perhaps the simplest way possible: I do not know the details. I am not sure what exactly happened in that situation with the CSM anime's director. I neither care that much nor are interested in it a lot, only reading news on the matter from time to time and commenting what I've read. I'm not an obsessed fan analyzing every bit of public information about MAPPA only to seethe about it with randoms on the Internet. I only casually speculate just like many other folks, but funnily enough I see my posts generating so childish reactions that it's partially funny, and partially worrysome, given how poor reading comprehension of some people posting in this thread seems to be.

I appreciate the information you've shared, of course. I read about most of things mentioned in your post, but about some I did not. Sadly, I don't browse the website you mentioned earlier ("X", formerly Twitter), so surely there are some things I must've omitted (both actual facts, casual speculations, but also gossips, even coming from those weird MAPPA haters who need to yell about anything, everything and anyone related to MAPPA when there's an occassion).

Your post of course goes in favor of the concept of Ryu Nakayama not being fired, and I agree with it. A company deciding to not continue working with someone is not equal to firing this person and breaking the contract.

We just came to the same conclusion from different roads, yet met at the same place, it seems. I saw it from the perspective of a corporation not wanting to continue working with someone, because of reasons I mentioned earlier. It wouldn't be anything new in the world of corporations. Even successful people might not hear about continuing the coopeartion, because of various reasons known to corporation's higher-ups. Was the CEO of MAPPA's words of disappointment crucial to it in Ryu Nakayama's case? I don't know, how would I know, lol. But knowing how corporations operate, I can see it being the reason. CSM was a financial success and the anime became a viral, but so what? It wouldn't be the first or the last example of someone leading a successful project who was not offered working further under certain company's banner.
You, on the other hand, support the idea of Ryu Nakayama just quitting himself, because there weren't enough, or at all, huge reasons to stop working with him. I see it differently, but I respect your point of view. Like I said, we came to a similar conclusion, so no need to argue about whose speculations, aka subjective view on a situation with basing one's knowledge on publicly available information, is "better" than the other.

Anyway, thanks for the conversation and have a nice day.